The whole record, as data, under licence

The Data Licence

A keyed API and a nightly export over the entire index: 605,912 decisions, 736,030 votes, 2,039,139 register items, 1,248,914 agenda items, 269 municipalities, back to 1960.

Real-estate and property-data companies · proptech · local news groups · researchers

The year of minutes-grammar you would otherwise spend

Every municipality publishes on a different platform, in a different format, with a different idea of what a motion looks like. Reading them reliably is not a scraping problem, it is a grammar problem, and it is the work this record has already done. Eight collections, one schema, one nightly refresh.

What you get

Eight collectionsdecisions, meetings, people, votes, attendance, conflicts, agenda items and register items, joined by stable identifiers
Full-text searchover decision text and agenda items, with cursor paging
Coverage published, per municipalityso a gap is known before you query rather than discovered as an empty array
A nightly exportSQLite and Parquet, rebuilt only from municipalities that passed every check that night
Provenance on every rowthe document it was read from, linked

What it costs

Academic and civic

Free with attribution

For research, teaching and non-commercial civic work.

The full API
Attribution required
No redistribution

Opens at launch

Product use

$18,000 a year

Inside your own product or service. No redistribution of the dataset.

The full API and nightly export
Stable versioned fields
Thirty days' notice before a breaking change
New municipalities at no extra charge

Opens at launch

Redistribution

$40,000 a year

The above, plus passing the data to your own customers.

Everything in Product use
Redistribution rights
Six months' notice before withdrawal
A named contact

Opens at launch

Pricing is set. Accounts open at launch — until then, write and we will talk.

How we compare

There is no Canadian vendor selling structured municipal decisions as a data product — we searched and found none on 2026-09-28. So this table compares against the alternatives a buyer would otherwise use.

	Of Record	Municipal open data	Build it yourself
Ontario municipalities	✓ 269 in one schema	~ Three of the largest cities publish their own votes; most publish nothing	~ However many you can afford to build
One schema across municipalities	✓ Joined by stable identifiers	✕ Every city its own format	✕ You write the grammar for each
History	✓ Back to 1960	~ Varies by city	~ As far back as you parse
Nightly refresh	✓ Rebuilt after a twenty-check gate	~ Varies	✕ Yours to run
Provenance per row	✓ Always	~ Sometimes	~ If you build it
Cost	✓ $18,000–$40,000 a year	✓ Free	✕ A year of engineering, then upkeep
Coverage outside Ontario	✕ None	~ Some cities	~ Whatever you build

✓ yes · ~ partly · ✕ no · ? neither confirmed nor denied by any source we could find

Where we lose, and who should not buy this

If the three cities that publish their own open data are the three you need, take the open data. It is free and it is the same underlying facts.
This is Ontario only. If you need national coverage, we are not it yet.
There is no published comparable for what structured municipal data sells for in Canada. These prices are anchored to adjacent categories, and the first licensee will get a price that reflects being first.

Where the competitor claims come from

Read 28 September 2026. Gnowit pricing · Gnowit municipal monitoring · Gnowit government monitoring · Curate · Curate for local government · FiscalNote 10-K, FY2025 · FiscalNote acquires Curate · Canada's contract disclosure · Council Scorecard · Open Council on voting records

What is always true. The public record stays free at every municipality's own address. What is sold here is notification, shape and reach — never earlier access, and never anything a reader cannot see for themselves.